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This Print Representing the British Fleet under the command of Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, with Vice Admiral Lord Nelson, K.B. and Rear Admiral Thomas Graves Entering the Sound, and passing the Castle and Fortress of Cronenburgh, on the 28 of March 1801, Is Dedicated ... to Earl Spencer ...
Mounted aquatint and etching, after the watercolour made in January 1802 by Pockock (PAJ2305). Portfolio. The British fleet is shown passing up the sound between Denmark and Sweden on 28 March 1801. The 'Elephant' (Nelson’s flagship) is shown second in the line of British ships, behind 'Monarch'. One of the small vessels on the far right is the lugger 'Lark'.
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Object Details
| ID: | PAJ2500 |
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| Type: | |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Robinson Kittoe; Pocock, after Nicholas Bluck Ackermann, Robert |
| Places: | Oresund; Kronborg Castle |
| Events: | Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Copenhagen, 1801 |
| Vessels: | Elephant (1786); Monarch (1765) Lark (1799) |
| Date made: | 20 May 1802 |
| People: | Pocock, Nicholas; Robinson Kittoe Bluck |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Mount: 791 mm x 1050 mm |